How to protect company IP in the age of social media *

USA - June 25 2012
Companies increasingly use social media to foster business, interact with clients and vendors and hire employees.

Co-authors: Paul A. Ragusa .

Revitalizing a dead patent family with continuing reissue patents: In re Staats *

USA - April 30 2012
In a precedential panel opinion, In re Staats, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“PTO”) and held that a continuing reissue application can be filed to add broadening claims after the two-year limit imposed by 35 USC § 251 has lapsed.